The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-24
WINDHAM COUNTY COURT.
Special correspondence of the SITTER

NEwFANE, VT, MAR. "a, 1887.
The jury in the case of ,SimOndS rs
BraHlebOrO Gas LigM Co., which was re-
ported last week. brought in verdict for
the plaintiff of $25. This was the last
civil case, The trial of Willard and Cul
yer who were imprisoned on the charge of
assault and battery came off Thursday.
1t appears from the evidence in this case
that the respondents came to the house of
one Pike in Nottingham on Feb. 30, 1887
and that cider was brought out of the
cellar and furnished them by Young Pike
They, in company with young Pike, after
playing cards for a while, went to the
woods to cut up tree which Wiley had
bought of Pixies father. Here fight oc-
cured between the respondents and young
Pike in which the latter received some
bruises of not very serious nature. As
it was not very clear from the testimony
which party was most at fault, the jury
brought in verdict of not guilty, and
Culver and Wiley We're set at liberty,
Hosea Mann, F. for the state, Il. l. IL
bee for the respondents.
The ever eager public were deprived of
most of the enjoyment of the term for the
divorce cases, with only a few exceptions,
came off in the evening, in the hotel and
visitors were not admitted-your cores.
pondent among the rest. He has made in
quiries of the lawyers, however, and has
found out that of the 10 cases on the
docket, 8 have been tried and have beer
granted Thursday afternoon the court
room was well filed with men and womer
who had come, expecting to have the On
| joyment of listening to some good rous
| ing divorce cases, but when the Judge
made the announcement that for the res
of the afternoon, the court would mot b,
at home" they, being unable to resis
such polite invitation, Immediately left
The bill was granted, however, withou
their assistance. Court adjourned Friday
Only three civil cases were heard anC
those three ought to be warning to al
persons who think of bringing their petit,
grievances before a county court. In the
first case only $40 was involved and til,
costs on either side were probably twic
that In the second case, johnson, tn
plaintiff. recovered, after three days fight
ing, sl44. This will, perhaps, a littl
more than cover his costs. In the thir,
case, after five days of desperate fighting
the plaintiff, Simonds, recovered S25,
sum one quarter as great as was offere,
him by the defendants previous to tn
rial. Adding together the $40. involves
in the first case, the Sl44 granted in til
secoud and the S25 in the third it makes
sum of S206; and in procuring this, 3
'.honest men," His Honor, the presidin
judge, two side judges, reporter, sheriff
&C. have spent ten days of hard labor.
Judge Powers was one of the pleasant
est, as well as one of the finest and mos
Pioiouhu JuaSCS' Ihat cNeI pIcslueu owe
the court of Windham County. We hop
he will continue to come to this county.
Waterman & Martin and Haskins
Stoddard and ]. NJ. Tyler appeared
every civil suit. The finest argument G
the term was by ]. NJ. Tyler on ii
Simonds, Gas Light Co. case. The mo.
remarkable verdict was on the same cas-,
The shortest arguments were on the Grin
inal cases.